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US president-elect, in his first interview since victory, says he plans to deport or jail undocumented foreigners. US president-elect Donald Trump said he planned to immediately deport or jail as many as three million undocumented immigrants, as he set out his priorities in the first...

WASHINGTON —In 2016, Ilhan Omar made history when she was elected to Minnesota's House of Representatives, becoming the first Somali-American to win a state office in the United States. Omar had humble beginnings, as her family was uprooted from her home country as a child...

By Farrah Fazal The bitter Minnesota cold was like Heaven for the last month for three refugees. They came from the largest refugee camp in the world in Kenya. They are celebrating their arrival here. Hasan, Basra and their son Abdirahman came to reunite with their...

More than $600,000 (£468,000) has been raised for the families of the three US men attacked while defending a Muslim teenager and her friend on a train. Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best were killed and Micah David-Cole Fletcher was severely injured in Portland,...

New York (AFP) - Republican candidate Donald Trump pledged to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's "undivided" capital if he is elected president, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who Hillary Clinton also met that evening. Netanyahu met privately with Trump at his residence in Trump...

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has promised to provide up to $15 million in funding that he says the United Nations will lose because of President Trump’s decision to pull out from the landmark Paris climate deal. The billionaire’s charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, on Thursday pledged...

Up until the final results were announced, Israeli news media reported that whoever took this election, it would not be good for Israel. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from East Jerusalem.

US visa denials for African invitees have forced cancellation of a US-Africa Energy Summit scheduled for later this month, organisers said on Wednesday. A notice to prospective attendees said the fully booked two-day event would not take place “because of the denial of US visas...

A press conference marking WikiLeaks' ten year anniversary will be held at Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin on Tuesday, October 4. Among the speakers will be, via videolink, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, his lawyer Melinda Taylor, WikiLeaks media partner John Goetz and...

PENTAGON — U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Friday that he was optimistic about improving Somali accountability concerning the distribution of American aid to Somali armed forces, much of which was suspended because of corruption concerns. "I'm sure we can get this thing under control,...